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Topic: Patch 2.4.3 to 3.0.2 US (Read 2124 times)

Description:Blizzard has released the latest patch for World of Warcraft, bringing the US version of 2.4.2 to 3.0.2.

File details: World of Warcraft v3.0.2 details:

General

All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 51-point talents. Several new spells and abilities have been added for all classes. Players will need to visit their class trainer to learn new spells.The Kirin Tor have made their move and so has Dalaran. Please watch your step around the crater that has been left behind!The Barber Shop has been implemented and you can now visit one of the Barber Shops in the major cities to change your appearance. Be sure to get your Shave and a Haircut!The all new Achievement System has been implemented and the Achievement panel can be accessed via the interface. While many achievements are not retroactive, we have done our best to credit as many as possible. Gamemasters will not be able to grant achievements for past accomplishements.Stormwind Harbor is now open for business.New towers have been added outside Of Orgrimmar and in Tirisfal Glades. Crews are currently at work to establish a new Zeppelin route to Northrend for your travel pleasure. Please no /spit off of the towers.A new entrance is now viewable in the Caverns of Time.Hit Rating, Critical Strike Rating, and Haste Rating now modify both melee attacks and spells.Spell casting and spell channeling pushback has been changed to the following:When casting a spell:The first and second hit will add .5 secs each to the cast time.All hits after the second will have no effect.When channeling a spell:The first and second hit reduces current duration by 25% of total duration each.All hits after the second will have no effect.Spellpower:All items and effects which grant bonuses to spell damage and spell healing are being consolidated into a single stat, Spellpower. This stat will appear with the same values found on items which grant “increased spell damage and healing” such as on typical Mage and Warlock itemization.For classes which do not heal, they should see no change in the character sheet other than new tooltip wording.Healing characters will see their bonus healing numbers on the character sheet decrease, however, all healing spells have been modified to receive more benefit from spellpower than they received from bonus healing, with a net effect of no change to the amount healed by their spells. Some talents have had to be rebalanced to accommodate this change, but the amount healed will remain roughly the same. In addition, some talents will provide only healing spell power.

Known Issues

The current patch notes are incomplete, but will be progressively more comprehensive in each patch.All classes are currently undergoing a balancing pass of all talent trees.Inscription is not fully implemented and still has non-functioning glyphs.

Druids

Brambles (Balance): Now increases the damage done by your Treants, and also damage caused from your Treants and Barkskin has a 5/10/15% chance to Daze the target for 3 sec.Celestial Focus (Balance): The stun proc now works with Starfall. This talent no longer has Wrath pushback protection, but instead increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.Challenging Roar now has a 3 minute cooldown, reduced from 10 minutes.Control of Nature (Balance) has been removed.Entangling Roots: Can now be used indoors.Faerie Fire (Feral): Now an 11-point talent, down from being a 21-point talent.Feral Charge (Feral) is now a 21-point talent, up from being a 11-point talent.Feral Charge (Feral): Can now be used in Cat form.Feral Instinct (Feral) no longer increases threat generated in Bear form, but now increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 5/10/15%.Feral Swiftness: The movement speed buff can now be used indoors.Focused Starlight (Balance)is now Nature's Majesty (Balance): Increases the critical strike chance of your Wrath, Starfire, Starfall, Nourish, and Healing Touch spells by 2/4/6%.Force of Nature (Balance): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from 3.Furor (Restoration): Now increases your total Intellect while in Moonkin form by 2/4/6/8/10%.Hurricane: No longer has a cooldown (was 1 minute).Improved Faerie Fire (Feral): Now also works with spell hit, in addition to ranged and melee hit %.Improved Mark of the Wild (Restoration): Now a 2-point talent, down from a 5-point talent.Improved Tranquility (Restoration): Now also reduces the cooldown of your Tranquility spell by 25/50%.Mangle (Feral): Now increases the damage done by Maul in addition to Shred.Moonglow (Balance): Now also works with Starfall. Moved to tier 2, up from tier 5.Moonkin Form (Balance) no longer increases your attack power or causes you to regenerate mana off melee attacks, but now has a chance to cause you to instantly regenerate 2% of your total mana every time you critically hit with a spell.Nature's Focus (Restoration): Now a 3 point talent, down from a 5-point talent. Also moved to Tier 1, up from Tier 2. Now also includes Nourish, Entangling Roots, Wrath, and Cyclone.Nature's Grace (Balance): Now also reduces the global cooldown of your Wrath spell by 50% while in effect.Nature's Grasp (Balance): Can now be used and can proc indoors. This is now a base ability at level 11 and has a 100% chance to proc.Nature's Reach (Balance): Now also reduces threat generated by Balance spells by 15/30%.New Spell: Revive - Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead target to life with health and mana. Cannot be cast when in combat. (Ranks 1-7 added)New Talent - Genesis (Balance): Increases the damage and healing done by your periodic spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.New Talent - Improved Insect Swarm (Balance): Increases your damage done by your Wrath spell to targets afflicted by your Insect Swarm by 1/2/3%, and increases the critical strike chance of your Starfire spell by 1/2/3% on targets afflicted by your Moonfire spell.New Talent - Mother Bear (Feral): Increases the bonus attack power for Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by an additional 20/40/60%, and for each friendly player in your party, damage you take is reduced while in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 1/2/3%.New Talent - Natural Reaction (Feral): Increases your dodge chance while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form by 2/4/6%, and you regenerate 1/2/3 rage everytime you dodge while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form.New Talent - Nature's Splendor (Balance): Increases the duration of your Moonfire, Insect Swarm, Rejuvenation, Regrowth, Lifebloom and Flourish spells by 10/20/30%.Omen of Clarity (Restoration): Now a passive spell. Now also works for spells (healing and damage). Proc rate is roughly 6% with a 10 second internal cooldown.Primal Tenacity (Feral) now reduces damage while stunned by 5/10/15%, and reduces the duration of fear effects by 5/10/15%.Remove Curse can now be used in Tree of Life form.Soothe Animal can now be used on Dragonkin as well as Beasts.Soothe Animal is now instant cast.Subtlety (Restoration): Now a 3-point talent, down from a 5-point talent. Also moved to Tier 2, up from Tier 3. Also now only reduced threat for Restoration spells, and reduces the chance that your healing over time spells (Lifebloom, Regrowth and Rejuvenation) will be dispelled, rather than all Druid spells. Threat management for Balance can now be found in the Balance tree, within Nature's Reach.Survival of the Fittest (Feral): Increased to 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.The mana regeneration penalty when in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and Cat Form has been removed.Tranquil Spirit (Restoration) now also includes Nourish.Tree of Life (Restoration): 30% snare penalty has been removed.Tree of Life (Restoration): Can now cast Dispel Curse.Tree of Life (Restoration): You can now cast all Restoration spells (Healing Touch) in the form, but Tree of Life now only reduces the mana cost of your healing over time spells (Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, Regrowth and Flourish) by 20%.Vengeance (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.

Hunters

All aspects now have a 1 second global cooldown, down from a 1.5 global cooldown.All pet families now have one unique ability. New abilities have been added for families such as bears and sporebats.Stablemasters can now accommodate two additional pets.Pets now have their own trees. These can be accessed via the talent panel.Animal Handler (Beast Mastery): No longer increases speed while mounted, but now reduces the cooldown of your Master's Call ability by 5/10 sec.Arcane Shot: No longer dispels magic effects.Aspects now no longer cost mana.Aspect of the Beast: Now increases melee attack power by 10% for the hunter and the hunter’s pet.Aspect of the Viper - The hunter takes on the aspect of the viper, instantly regenerating mana equal to 100% of the damage done by any ranged attack or ability, but reduces your total damage done by 50%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time.Avoidance, Dash / Dive and Cobra Reflexes are now pet talents instead of pet skills.Bestial Swiftness is now a pet talent tree talent, and has been removed from the Beast Mastery Hunter tree.Bite now has no cooldown, does the same damage and costs the same Focus as Claw, so works as a Focus dump.Clever Traps (Survival) has been renamed "Trap Mastery."Combat Experience (Marksmanship): Now grants 3/6% Agility, up from 1/2%.Concussive Barrage (Marksmanship): Can now proc from Volley and Multi-shot attacks.Counterattack: Damage increased by 20%, and now also scales with your Ranged Attack Power.Deterrence (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, and now also increases your chance to resist spells by 60%. Now has a new spell effect.Disengage: This ability has been re-designed. Now leaps the Hunter backwards up to 13 yards. 30 second cooldown. Disengage now also only has one rank (rank 1).Distracting Shot: This shot now "taunts" the target onto the Hunter. The taunt effect will last 6 seconds. Distracting Shot now only has one rank (rank 1).Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw (never both).Focused Fire (Beast Mastery): Now increases the critical strike chance of your Kill Command by 10/20/30% while Kill Command is active. This effect can stack up to 3 times, but diminishes for each charge of Kill Command.Hunter pets can now learn talents in one of three trees depending on family. Pets gain talent points starting at level 20 and earn an extra talent point every 4 levels.If a hunter tames a pet that is more than five levels beneath their own level, the pet will then have their level increased to five levels beneath the hunter’s own level.Improved Arcane Shot (Marksmanship): Now increases the damage done by your Arcane Shot by 5/10/15%.Improved Feign Death (Survival): This talent has been replaced with Survival Tactics.Improved Hunter's Mark (Marksmanship): Now a 3-point talent, and now increases the amount of attack power granted by your Hunter's Mark ability by 10/20/30% and reduces the mana cost of your Hunter's Mark ability by 33/66/100%.Improved Stings (Marksmanship): Now a 3-point talent, down from 5-points.Kill Command: This ability now increases the damage done by your pet's special abilities by 60%. Each attack will reduce the damage bonus by 20%. 1 minute cooldown.Loyalty, Training Points and the hunter Beast Training button no longer exist. Hunter pets can now learn all skills at their level. They will get new ranks automatically as they gain levels.Master Tactician (Survival): Chance to proc increased to 10%, up from 6%.Mongoose Bite: No longer requires you to dodge in order to use this ability.Monster Slaying (Survival) and Humanoid Slaying (Survival) has been combined into "Improved Tracking".New Talent - Aspect Mastery (Beast Mastery)New Talent - Hunter vs. Wild (Survival): Increases you and your pet's attack power and ranged attack power equal to 10/20/30% of your total Stamina.New Talent - Improved Tracking (Survival): Increases all damage done to targets that are being tracked 1/2/3/4/5%.New Talent - Lock and Load (Survival): You have a 33/66/100% chance when you trap a target and a 10/20/30% chance when you sting a target to cause your next 3 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost no mana and consume no ammo.New Talent - Survival Tactics (Survival): Reduces the chance your Feign Death ability and all trap spells will be resisted by 2/4%, and reduces the cooldown of your Disengage ability by 2/4 sec.New Talent - T.N.T. (Survival): Your Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Explosive Shot have a 5/10/15% to stun targets for 2 sec when they deal damage, and increases the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and Explosive Trap by 5/10/15%.Pathfinding (Beast Mastery): Now also increases the movement speed while mounted by 5/10%.Rapid Killing (Marksmanship): This will now proc off Chimera Shot, but no longer works with auto-shot.Readiness (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.Savage Strikes (Survival): Now includes Counterattack.Silencing Shot (Marksmanship): This spell will now interrupt the current spell being cast on the target and lock out that school for 3 sec if the target is immune to silence effects.Spirit Bond (Beast Mastery): Also increases healing done to you and your pet by 5/10%.Steady Shot now uses ammo. In result, its bonus damage has been slightly reduced. Players can notice a damage increase based upon what ammo they use.Steady Shot: Now has a 2.0 cast time, up from 1.5.Surefooted (Survival) now reduces the duration of movement impairing effects by 16/25/50% (instead of resist % chance).Survival Instincts (Survival): This has been moved to tier-2, up from tier 6.Survivalist (Survival): Now increases your total Stamina, instead of your total Health.The arming time has been reduced to 1 second, from 2 seconds for all traps.Tranquilizing Shot: Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (down from 20), and now dispels Enrage and Magic effects.Trap Mastery (Survival) is now an 11-point talent.Trueshot Aura - This aura is now raid-wide and now increases all ranged and melee attack power by 10%. In addition, this spell now only has one rank. All other ranks have been removed.Wingclip: No longer does damage.

Mages

Arcane Blast effect duration reduced to 3 seconds, and now increases damage by 25/50/75% instead of reducing cast time.Arcane Focus (Arcane) is now 3 ranks and increases chance to hit and reduces mana cost of Arcane spells by 1/2/3%.Arcane Fortitude moved to tier 2, increased to 3 ranks, now increases armor equal to 50/100/150% of Intellect.Arcane Impact renamed Spell Impact and now affects Blast Wave, Fire Blast, Cone of Cold, and Ice Lance.Arcane Potency now applies when Presence of Mind is active, talent prerequisite changed to Presence of Mind.Arcane Subtlety now reduces the chance your spells will be dispelled by 15/35%, and no longer reduces the resistance of targets.Arctic Reach now also affects Deep Freeze.Blast Wave now knocks all affected targets back.Conjured mana gems no longer disappear from your backpack after being logged out for more than 15 minutes. Higher ranks of Conjure Mana Gem will recharge an existing mana gem to maximum charges.Counterspell now costs 9% of base mana.Elemental Precision moved to tier 2.Empowered Arcane Missiles renamed Arcane Empowerment and no longer increases mana cost. It now also increases damage caused by Arcane Blast.Empowered Fireball reduced to 3 ranks, now increases damage by 5/10/15% of spell power.Empowered Frostbolt reduced to 2 ranks, increases damage by 5/10% of spell power and increases critical hit chance by 2/4%.Flame Throwing moved to tier 3.Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.Frost Channeling now reduces mana cost of all spells by 4/7/10%.Frost Warding now increases armor and resistances of Frost/Ice Armor by 25/50%, now gives Frost Ward and Fire Ward a 15/30/5 chance to negate damage caused and restore mana equal to damage caused by the warded spell.Ice Floes renamed Cold as Ice, now reduces cooldown of Cold Snap, Ice Barrier, Summon Water Elemental, and Deep Freeze by 10/20%.Impact moved to tier 3, reduced to 3 ranks for 4/7/10% chance to trigger, now triggers from any damaging spell (Fire, Frost or Arcane).Improved Blink now also reduces mana cost by 25/50%.Improved Counterspell now always silences the target for 2/4 seconds.Improved Fire Blast moved to tier 1, reduced to 2 ranks, reduces the cooldown by 1/2 seconds.Improved Flamestrike moved to tier 2, renamed World in Flames, now increases the critical hit chance of Flamestrike, Blast Wave, Dragon’s Breath, Living Bomb, Blizzard, and Arcane Explosion by 2/4/6%.Improved Frost Nova renamed Ice Floes, moved to tier 1, increased to 3 ranks, now reduces cooldown of Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Ice Block, and Icy Veins by 7/14/20%.Improved Mana Shield has been renamed to Arcane Shielding, reduces mana lost per damage absorbed by 17/33%,and now also increases resistances granted by Mage Armor by 25/50%.Improved Scorch now increases Fire, Frost, and Arcane damage done to the target by 2/4/6/8/10%.Incineration moved to tier 1, increases the critical hit chance of Fire Blast, Scorch, Arcane Blast, and Cone of Cold by 2/4/6%.Invisibility now makes the caster invisible after 3 seconds, reduced from 5 seconds.Magic Absorption reduced to 2 ranks, increases resistances by .5/1 point per level, and restores 1/3% of total mana on a resist.Magic Attunement (Arcane) now also increases the range of your Arcane spells by 3/6 yards.Mana Shield now drains 1.5 mana per damage absorbed.Master of Elements now affects all spell criticals.Mind Mastery reduced to 3/6/9/12/15%.Molten Shields now gives Fire Ward and Frost Ward spells a 15/30% chance to reflect the warded spell.Polymorph now costs 12% of base mana.Portal spells now cost 18% of base mana.Prismatic Cloak (Arcane) increased to 3 ranks for 1/2/3% and now also reduces the fade time of Invisibility by 1/2/3 seconds.Pyroblast cast time has been reduced to 5 seconds.Remove Lesser Curse has been renamed to Remove Curse.Shatter no longer has a prerequisite.Slow Fall now costs 6% of base mana.Slow mana cost reduced.Summoned Water Elemental's Waterbolt range increased, mana cost reduced, Freeze range increased, mana cost increased.Teleport spells now cost 9% of base mana.Winter's Chill reduced to 3 ranks, Frost damage spells have a 33/66/100% chance to trigger the effect and the effect increases chance to crit with Arcane, Fire and Frost spells.